The thing with his argument is that I just struggle to imagine a scenario in which the experts and affected agree and we’re better off listening to judges, lawyers, and politicians instead.

There’s no reasonable argument from the avenues I’d listen to those groups (such as appeal to fundamental freedoms, rights of the individual, etc) where the position should be to bar these people from receiving treatment they want against expert recommendations.

In short, Mr Vance demonstrates the intellectual rigor I’ve come to associate with the denizens of Middletown Ohio, and the firm belief in one’s own right to be the arbiter of everyone else’s life I’ve come to associate with his ivy league education and tech background.

This is a man who argued with the pope about catholic doctrine a few years after converting and I honestly can’t make up something more exaggerated than that